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Old 03-13-2017, 03:00 AM
 
Location: Constitutional USA, zn.8A
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a Relationship between say 2 is a mutual process. For people in relationship with
Christ how do you relate?

1. some say Christ is their 'hero', meaning?
is Christ your Creator ?, Daddy ?, Healer ?, Savior ?, Teacher ?, Best-friend ?, Resurrector ?
&
2. How do you interact?
-> do you only cry out to Him when trouble stares you down?
or
-> do you choose enjoying His companionship, day in & day out anytime ?
&
3. When you get Answers, how do you know they are from God?,
or your sub-conscious?, or you're only consciously thinking?
so
4. do you check the Bible... to see if the answer matches up with your current understanding?,
or do you know?

Give these questions thought, & then share... so everyone can benefit Thank you!
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Old 03-13-2017, 06:57 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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God is my 'go-to' ...um, Friend, Spirit, Father.
Waking or going off to sleep..the first and the last awareness.
I have been Practicing the Presence in stillness for decades.
My communication with Him is 99% only gratitude and communing.
Granted, there was a time I was 'troubled' when I was younger and asked for help
and guidance and strength.
But I got it, and so now I just enjoy Him and give Him my love, meaning how
you love anything...giving Him my attention, my focus, my thoughts, my smiles,
my acknowledgment and recognition and appreciation...turning to Him in everything,
complete reliance on His ever present Being.
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Old 03-13-2017, 08:37 AM
 
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We are friends. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Old 03-13-2017, 09:42 AM
 
Location: On the brink of WWIII
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a Relationship between say 2 is a mutual process. For people in relationship with
Christ how do you relate?

1. some say Christ is their 'hero', meaning?
is Christ your Creator ?, Daddy ?, Healer ?, Savior ?, Teacher ?, Best-friend ?, Resurrector ?


IS Christ not a hero, role model, friend, comrade, confidant, ect...

2. How do you interact?
-> do you only cry out to Him when trouble stares you down?


I have been crying out to Christ since JANUARY 20, 2017 on an hourly basis.


-> do you choose enjoying His companionship, day in & day out anytime ?

There is nothing to choose, He is with me always...

3. When you get Answers, how do you know they are from God?,
or your sub-conscious?, or you're only consciously thinking?


If the answer is based in, founded in and rooted in LOVE, it is from God...


4. do you check the Bible... to see if the answer matches up with your current understanding?,
or do you know?


The bible is an ancient book that is a great guide, but has almost ZERO relevancy to the people of the 21st century..GOD STILL SPEAKS TODAY...
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Old 03-13-2017, 09:43 AM
 
Location: On the brink of WWIII
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We are friends. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ain't that enough?
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Old 03-13-2017, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Southern Oregon
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a Relationship between say 2 is a mutual process. For people in relationship with
Christ how do you relate?

1. some say Christ is their 'hero', meaning?
is Christ your Creator ?, Daddy ?, Healer ?, Savior ?, Teacher ?, Best-friend ?, Resurrector ?
&
Admiration for the message brought in a hostile time and place.
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2. How do you interact?
-> do you only cry out to Him when trouble stares you down?
or
-> do you choose enjoying His companionship, day in & day out anytime ?
&
As realization of His influence in my life occurs
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3. When you get Answers, how do you know they are from God?,
or your sub-conscious?, or you're only consciously thinking?
so
It depends on the nature of the question I'd have to say. I'd hope that any process by which an answer comes in in the nature of the Spirit as taught by Jesus
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4. do you check the Bible... to see if the answer matches up with your current understanding?,
or do you know?
I check how they comport with the basis of the New Covenant expressed in the New Commandment
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Old 03-13-2017, 12:18 PM
 
Location: USA
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a Relationship between say 2 is a mutual process. For people in relationship with
Christ how do you relate?

1. some say Christ is their 'hero', meaning?
is Christ your Creator ?, Daddy ?, Healer ?, Savior ?, Teacher ?, Best-friend ?, Resurrector ?
&
2. How do you interact?
-> do you only cry out to Him when trouble stares you down?
or
-> do you choose enjoying His companionship, day in & day out anytime ?
&
3. When you get Answers, how do you know they are from God?,
or your sub-conscious?, or you're only consciously thinking?
so
4. do you check the Bible... to see if the answer matches up with your current understanding?,
or do you know?

Give these questions thought, & then share... so everyone can benefit Thank you!
Christ isn't a person, as I understand it, but rather the "seed" of God within each of us. In light of that, I can't say I think of it as a "relationship" as much as a desire to live in conscious awareness. My understanding of the spirit/characteristics of God revolve around what love is, and that is how I judge whether what is influencing me in any given moment is of Christ or not.
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Old 03-13-2017, 12:29 PM
 
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a Relationship between say 2 is a mutual process. For people in relationship with
Christ how do you relate?

1. some say Christ is their 'hero', meaning?
is Christ your Creator ?, Daddy ?, Healer ?, Savior ?, Teacher ?, Best-friend ?, Resurrector ?
&
2. How do you interact?
-> do you only cry out to Him when trouble stares you down?
or
-> do you choose enjoying His companionship, day in & day out anytime ?
&
3. When you get Answers, how do you know they are from God?,
or your sub-conscious?, or you're only consciously thinking?
so
4. do you check the Bible... to see if the answer matches up with your current understanding?,
or do you know?

Give these questions thought, & then share... so everyone can benefit Thank you!
once I heard that for us to hear or understand something new our mind has to see it or experience it 13 or more times to comprehend or understand it.. . that means that if I hear or comprehend the Lord once he had to have said, pictured it , sang it , it to me 13 or more times even in different ways .. so it isn't really a relationship when we are the deaf and blind.. but more like he has to be a nag for us to even understand him.


and from that you learn who I am .

so most of the time I'm his pain in the butt little sister , a grateful one.. b ut....one who just thinks she got by with calling Our Lord and King , a Nag.. rotf...
Don't worry he will get even.
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Old 03-13-2017, 12:54 PM
 
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a Relationship between say 2 is a mutual process. For people in relationship with
Christ how do you relate?

1. some say Christ is their 'hero', meaning?
is Christ your Creator ?, Daddy ?, Healer ?, Savior ?, Teacher ?, Best-friend ?, Resurrector ?
&
2. How do you interact?
-> do you only cry out to Him when trouble stares you down?
or
-> do you choose enjoying His companionship, day in & day out anytime ?
&
3. When you get Answers, how do you know they are from God?,
or your sub-conscious?, or you're only consciously thinking?
so
4. do you check the Bible... to see if the answer matches up with your current understanding?,
or do you know?

Give these questions thought, & then share... so everyone can benefit Thank you!
1- Yes - all of the above

2- gratitude for the good, help for the tough times... He reveals Himself through the Bible, prayer, other believers... the more you want to know Him, the more He will reveal Himself

3- sometimes tough to discern... I do know His counsel always lines up with the Bible

4- sometimes... there are instances when you need to do something where it is not an issue of right or wrong, like taking a certain job, you just have to trust in Him.
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Old 03-13-2017, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Panama City, FL
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God is my 'go-to' ...um, Friend, Spirit, Father.
Waking or going off to sleep..the first and the last awareness.
I have been Practicing the Presence in stillness for decades.
My communication with Him is 99% only gratitude and communing.
Granted, there was a time I was 'troubled' when I was younger and asked for help
and guidance and strength.
But I got it, and so now I just enjoy Him and give Him my love, meaning how
you love anything...giving Him my attention, my focus, my thoughts, my smiles,
my acknowledgment and recognition and appreciation...turning to Him in everything,
complete reliance on His ever present Being.
I try to live that way as well. Imagine if everyone lived this way 24/7 !

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